Jake Paul mocks Connor McGregor\u2019s claims he\u2019d beat Islam Makhachev YouTube: In DepthYouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul has fired shots at Conor McGregor after the UFC star claimed he could counter Islam Makhachev\u2019s fighting style. Being one of the pioneers of influencer boxing, YouTube star Jake Paul has made a name for himself in the world of combat sports in the last few years. So far, the younger Paul brother has had five bouts under his belt, and right now he\u2019s gearing up for his sixth against MMA legend Anderson \u2018The Spider\u2019 Silva. Despite being less than a week out from his scrap with Silva, he\u2019s still going for people\u2019s necks on Twitter, this time firing shots at Conor McGregor. Following on from claims that he\u2019d be an easier fight than his upcoming Anderson Silva bout, once again, Jake he took aim at McGregor. In now-deleted tweets, the Irishman hit out at the newly-crowned UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev, who took the title from Oliveira by submission in the second round at UFC 280. Conor claimed that he now has the tools to be able to counter the fighting style used by his rival Khabib Nurmagomedov, which Makhachev adopted. \u201cNice fight. nice performance. I have built all the tools to beat this style now Vs b4,\u201d he said on Twitter. However, Jake strongly thinks otherwise. Hitting back at the UFC star, he said: \u201cOnly tools he has built are Twitter fingers. Islam would Khabib him in one round. Hence why he deleted his tweets.\u201d McGregor\u2019s last fight left him on the sidelines after suffering from a broken leg injury against Dustin Poirier. But, now he\u2019s looking to get back in the octagon. With Jake also teasing an MMA debut, it definitely wouldn\u2019t be impossible to see the two face off in the future. Though has expressed that he thinks McGregor will ultimately avoid a bout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul mocks Connor McGregor\u2019s claims he\u2019d beat Islam Makhachev YouTube: In DepthYouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul has fired shots at Conor McGregor after the UFC star claimed he could counter Islam Makhachev\u2019s fighting style. Being one of the pioneers of influencer boxing, YouTube star Jake Paul has made a name for himself in the world of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}